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Article #331Re: Another example of smail routing
From: Dave Cohrs
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1987 17:44
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1987 17:44
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Phil Ngai complains that his mail gets routed through SUN.COM
despite the fact that his host is connected directly to other
sites, for example UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU and DECWRL.DEC.COM.
Without looking at the mail config files on the sites you mention,
I can't give an exact answer. However, the two sites you mention
*are* on the Internet and use the Nameserver for routing mail.
When they get mail for AMDCAD.AMD.COM, I assume that they look up the
mail routing info in the nameserver, an MX record, which says "send
*mail* for AMDCAD.AMD.COM to SUN.COM".
If amdcad (or any other AMD machine, as the case may be) has a direct
connection to decwrl and ucbvax, they need to put special hacks into
their configuration to override the MX information from the
nameserver.
In any case, I don't think your beef is with smail, but with the mail
configurations at decwrl and ucbvax. Decwrl and ucbvax are doing what
AMD.COM told them to do, "send our mail to SUN.COM". I'm sure that you
can work something out with their postmasters.
Dave Cohrs
(608) 262-1204
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!uwvax!dave From: dave@rsch.wisc.edu (Dave Cohrs) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: Another example of smail routing Message-ID: <3108@rsch.WISC.EDU> Date: Sat, 10-Jan-87 12:44:09 EST Article-I.D.: rsch.3108 Posted: Sat Jan 10 12:44:09 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Jan-87 22:52:06 EST References: <14267@amdcad.UUCP> Sender: news@rsch.WISC.EDU Reply-To: dave@rsch.wisc.edu (Dave Cohrs) Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 27